Documents / FOIA release
This is a 1992 CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, originally classified Secret NOFORN and approved for release in 2013. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974 and the two aircraft it developed, the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. The history covers the U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union, the 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers and later operations in Asia and Latin America. It also includes a section on U-2s, UFOs and Operation BLUE BOOK.
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## Secret NOFORN Index 374 National Security Council Intelligence Directive (NSCID) 191 Nationalist China 319,215,224,226,229,236 Nationalist Chinese 201, 205, 222-226, 229-230, 234-237, 239-240, 243, 245-246, 253, 257, 319 Air Force 223, 225 insignia 225 pilots 319, 223, 230, 235, 243, 246, 253 U-2 205, 223-224, 229, 246 Navajo missile 22 Naval Air Station at Atsugi, Japan 134 naval quarantine 210 Nehru, Jawaharlal 231-233 Nelson, Norman 68 Nevada 56-57,341,113,130-131,133,149 182,241,274,283,286,290,295 297,302-303,311 Nevada Proving Ground 56,241 New Delhi, India 232 Ngo Dinh Diem 230 NICE GIRL 310 nickel-cadmium batteries 240 Nile River 119 NIMBUS 200 1973 Middle East war 256,320 9th Tactical Air Force 330 nitrogen 64 Nixon, Richard M. 245-246, 256-257, 333 Nobel Prize 332 North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) 289 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 20, 329, 87, 148, 172 radars 87 North Island Naval Base, California 248 North Korea 4, 233, 237, 242, 307 North Vietnam 190, 221-222, 230-231, 233, 243, 246-247, 301, 304-307, 311, 336, 342 North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) 231 Northrop Aviation 259 Norton, Garrison 14-15, 31, 70, 260, 331 Norwalk, Connecticut 50 Notre Dame University 7 Novaya Zemlya 172 Novokuznetsk, Soviet Union 138 nuclear energy 39, 81, 225 Nuclear Energy Division 39
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.